Mammalia - Dasyuromorphia - Malleodectidae

Synonym: Xenodelphis doelloi Paula Couto 1962

Full reference: C. d. Paula Couto. 1952. Fossil mammals from the beginning of the Cenozoic in Brazil. Marsupialia: Didelphidae. American Museum Novitates 1567:1-26

Belongs to Gaylordia according to C. d. Paula Couto 1952

See also Oliveira and Goin 2015 and Paula Couto 1962

Sister taxa: Gaylordia mater, Gaylordia mendesi

Type specimens:

• Gaylordia macrocynodonta: DGM 329-M, a partial skull (Anterior part of skull and mesial fragment of left mandibular ramus). Its type locality is São José de Itaborai, which is in an Eocene fissure fill marl in the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil.
• Xenodelphis doelloi: MNRJ 2504-V, a mandible (Left mandibular ramus, incomplete). Its type locality is São José de Itaborai, which is in an Eocene fissure fill marl in the Itaboraí Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: scansorial omnivore

Distribution: found only at São José de Itaborai

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